Badges

	Mozilla Open Badges
	Owner: Erin Knight, Carla Casilli, Sunny Lee, Emily Goligoski, Chris McAvoy, Brian Brennan, Mike Larsson, Doug Belshaw, Jess Klein, Chloe Varelidi, Atul Varma, Meg Cole, Jade Forester	Updated: 2013-10-15
	Mozilla's Open Badges make it easy for anyone to issue, earn and display badges across the web through a shared infrastructure that's free and open to all.

What is Mozilla's Open Badges project?

Learning today happens everywhere, not just in the classroom. But it's often difficult to get recognition for skills and achievements that happen outside of school. Mozilla's Open Badges project is working to solve that problem, making it easy for anyone to issue, earn and display badges across the web through a shared technical infrastructure. The result: helping people of all ages gain and display 21st century skills and unlock new career and educational opportunities.

Get started with Open Badges

Ready? Check out our site and Community page

• http://openbadges.org
• http://community.openbadges.org/

Set? Create your Backpack

• https://backpack.openbadges.org

Go! Get some Badges!

• Take the Badges 101 Quiz and earn your first badge!

• Read more about the Technology behind Open Badges
• Find the Onboarding information for Issuers, Displayers and Earners and get started!

Become part of the Community

• Open Badges learning group and development group -- Subscribe to these groups to take part in ongoing conversations about badges in the wild.
• Open Badges Community Calls -- Join our weekly global call every Wednesday at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 5pm GMT. During these hour-long calls we share our progress and encourage you to share your Open Badges work, questions, and comments. They're fun and we encourage you to come along!
• Open Badges Research & Design Calls -- If you are interested in Open Badges Research and Badge System Design, join this call, held on Wednesdays in the hour before the Community Calls, at 8am PT / 11am ET / 4pm GMT.
• Open Badges Blog -- Follow our blog for Open Badges news and updates.
• Twitter -- Follow @OpenBadges and use the #OpenBadges hashtag to join the conversation on Twitter.
• Facebook -- Like us on Facebook for news and updates you can share with your networks.
• IRC -- Reach us on IRC at irc.mozilla.org, #badges
• Open Badges presentation materials -- Want to give an Open Badges presentation? To get you started, here's a PDF. Please note that all of these documents are CC by SA.
• Common badges terms and vocabulary -- Help us to build a common lexicon of digital badge terms.

Who is using Open Badges?

• User stories -- Hypothetical examples of how badges can help solve problems in everyday scenarios.
  
• 2 Million Better Futures -- This project from CGI America aims to help 1 million workers and 1 million students succeed using Open Badges by 2016.
• Chicago Summer of Learning -- The first citywide badging initiative, which was so successful that Mayor Emmanuel committed to continuing the program next year.
• Participating Issuers -- An updated list of badge issuers and designers.
• General Badge Issuing Platform Chart -- A list of platforms for issuing open badges generated and continuously updated by the community.
• Badges for School Issuer Platforms -- Badge issuing platforms for schools.

Further Reading

• White Paper -- An in-depth look at how badges can reinvent 21st century learning
  
• Open Badges Validation Paper -- An exploration of how to build an open and distributed accreditation system for badges and the organizations that issue them
  
• Press coverage -- A collection of articles and related items from community member Sheryl Grant (new Press Coverage page coming soon!)
• Open Badges roadmap -- We're continually updating the roadmap with new features.
• Digital Media and Learning Competition: Badges for LifeLong Learning (administered by HASTAC and funded by MacArthur) -- click to learn more.

Press Inquiries

Please contact press@mozilla.com.

Get involved with Mozilla

• Join Mozilla -- you could get a snazzy t-shirt for joining!
• Mozilla's mission -- Read more about our mission to promote openness, innovation & opportunity on the Web.
• Like Mozilla on Facebook and Follow Mozilla on Twitter
• Get updates from Mozilla -- Be the first to know what we're doing and how you can get involved.